Who is this “we” in Australia's new "We want CoalSeamGas" campaign?
Why, the Coal Seam Gas industry, of course!
Showing posts with label peak oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peak oil. Show all posts
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Saturday, 3 September 2011
Over 1000 Arrests Outside White House But Media Still Silent
More than a thousand people have so far been arrested protesting the construction of the Keystone-XL Tarsands pipeline through the Ogalalla Aquifer.
Still not heard anything about this on the radio or other media here.
Why not?
Still not heard anything about this on the radio or other media here.
Why not?
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
President Turns a Blind Eye as Masses Arrested at White House
"... Now, here’s the thing: while it’s great to see the press corps pushing the Administration to recognize our demonstration, the fact that Carney hasn’t yet briefed the President on the protest and the pipeline is a worrying sign about how out of touch this administration is on this issue."
“Just in the last two days everyone from the president’s chief climate scientist to an 84-year-old grandmother was arrested on his front doorstep,” said environmental author Bill McKibben, who is spearheading the White House protest. “This is the largest civil disobedience action in the environmental movement in a generation, and if they really aren’t even discussing it with the president, that signals a deep disrespect for their supporters ..."
More at Tarsands Action
“Just in the last two days everyone from the president’s chief climate scientist to an 84-year-old grandmother was arrested on his front doorstep,” said environmental author Bill McKibben, who is spearheading the White House protest. “This is the largest civil disobedience action in the environmental movement in a generation, and if they really aren’t even discussing it with the president, that signals a deep disrespect for their supporters ..."
More at Tarsands Action
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Bottom Massage
“… 200 years of abundant energy have allowed us to build an extremely complex civilization based on dozens of interrelated systems without which we can no longer live - at least not in the style to which we have become accustomed … Those who believe that ten years from now we will be able to get along with much reduced government have little appreciation of how modern civilization works or how bad things are going to get as fossil fuel energy fades from our lives …”
Read more at “peak oil crisis: the future of government” by Tom Whipple.
And more on 'bottom bouncing' at Shadowstats, where Walter J. "John" Williams notes that "despite minor changes to the system, government [economic] reporting has deteriorated sharply in the last decade or so." Can this be purely accidental? Surely not. After all, covering the hideous truth in a cheering blanket of confusion always helps, leaving only a few suspicious buggers to write dry headlines like "November Jobs Increase Was Statistically Indistinguishable from Decline."
Read more at “peak oil crisis: the future of government” by Tom Whipple.
And more on 'bottom bouncing' at Shadowstats, where Walter J. "John" Williams notes that "despite minor changes to the system, government [economic] reporting has deteriorated sharply in the last decade or so." Can this be purely accidental? Surely not. After all, covering the hideous truth in a cheering blanket of confusion always helps, leaving only a few suspicious buggers to write dry headlines like "November Jobs Increase Was Statistically Indistinguishable from Decline."
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Managing the Descent
When you have vertigo it's best to get your feet back on the ground. You'll feel a lot better for it.
Dr Mathis Wackernagel of ecological footprint fame on Post Growth blog:
"Our current palliative economic therapies have compromised our economies’ potential to deliver in the future. These investments have not helped us access cheap, abundant resources (which no longer exist), but have brought us more deeply into “peak everything.”
Hence the questions are not: do we want growth, nor how much growth is desirable? Rather they become: What will be the consequences of a resource-imposed “end of growth?” How can economies cope with non-linearities such as unexpected contractions? How can we avoid uneven contractions that would lead to social unrest? How can economies be stable, resilient and prosperous in a peak everything world?"
Read more ...
Dr Mathis Wackernagel of ecological footprint fame on Post Growth blog:
"Our current palliative economic therapies have compromised our economies’ potential to deliver in the future. These investments have not helped us access cheap, abundant resources (which no longer exist), but have brought us more deeply into “peak everything.”
Hence the questions are not: do we want growth, nor how much growth is desirable? Rather they become: What will be the consequences of a resource-imposed “end of growth?” How can economies cope with non-linearities such as unexpected contractions? How can we avoid uneven contractions that would lead to social unrest? How can economies be stable, resilient and prosperous in a peak everything world?"
Read more ...
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Feeling a Bit Peaky
Type peak oil into Google search and you’ll get the following drop-down list:
Peak oil news
Peak oil debunked
Peal oil myth
Peak oil theory
Peak oil
So there’s obviously plenty of people still out there in denial of resource depletion, clinging resolutely to their cosy blanket even as it is shrinking and disintegrating.
Not the guys at The Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security though - what a bunch of hippies!
Here’s 3 minutes of Philip Dilley, Chairman of Arup, at the introduction to the Peak Oil Task Force launch earlier this year. Now “The Taskforce warns that more urgent action is needed from Government to address the threat of peak oil following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It urges the UK Coalition Government to take action to reduce the impact of the oil crunch by 2015.” They have brought out a new briefing note about the implications of deep-water drilling for oil now that we are, supposedly, getting towards the end of easily and cheaply available supplies.
But I'm sure they're just imagining it, so don't worry.
Peak oil news
Peak oil debunked
Peal oil myth
Peak oil theory
Peak oil
So there’s obviously plenty of people still out there in denial of resource depletion, clinging resolutely to their cosy blanket even as it is shrinking and disintegrating.
Not the guys at The Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security though - what a bunch of hippies!
Here’s 3 minutes of Philip Dilley, Chairman of Arup, at the introduction to the Peak Oil Task Force launch earlier this year. Now “The Taskforce warns that more urgent action is needed from Government to address the threat of peak oil following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It urges the UK Coalition Government to take action to reduce the impact of the oil crunch by 2015.” They have brought out a new briefing note about the implications of deep-water drilling for oil now that we are, supposedly, getting towards the end of easily and cheaply available supplies.
But I'm sure they're just imagining it, so don't worry.
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